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They did a bad job then, since they still work.

• tolbish 5y ago
  They still use the flags, just not in every instance. I recall the quotes for inclusion of strings and the "-site" flag failing for me as early as last year.
  • gpvos 5y ago
    I thought that was several years ago already? Anyway, on Duckduckgo it still works.
  • edgyquant 5y ago
    Yes they do ignore those but at this moment they don’t ignore site: queries. Google also suffers heavily from old content, and even changing the date under the tools section doesn’t work for some reason. I think because it goes by when the page was last updated and sites like Reddit update them automatically very frequently